Hello denizens of E, I am looking to start yet another Pathfinder game on the site. Although, my experience with system games on E with heavy crunch is that they do not last PbP (play by post). I also realize that everyone on E has lives and meeting up to play in a game can be a huge inconvenience.

What I am proposing is a hopefully a more reasonable solution to that. I would like to gather a group to meet over Mumble/Skype/Google Hangouts monthly or Bimonthly to just run through an Adventure Path.

For those who are not in the know, Adventure Paths are campaigns published by Paizo the creators of the Pathfinder Role-playing system that promise interesting stories within certain themes of campaigns overarching them. They are designed for small parties, because of this I am only accepting 4 characters. It is not first come first serve and I will not be starting already until mid January.

I personally would like to run either Reign of Winter, Iron Gods, or Kingmaker. I have all the complete paths though, and if you can properly sell a path I will give it a re-read (or a read, owning doesn't exactly mean knowledge of)

So we shall see what everyone interested is wanting to play and then we shall go from there.

All characters are 15 point buy, 2 traits. You may use any book so long as you reference properly. I would advise waiting because of story reasons for why your character is where he/she is.

It's less about talking so much as being present during a certain time of the day when you can participate with the rest of the group. Unless you're using voice chat unreliably also includes not being able to hear, that would be a problem.

Well, I could do it, thing is that I share a place with a pair of potheads who can't fathim the concept of volume control, so any use of my mic before 11 PM Pacific results in hearing nothing but hacking coughs and Steve Harvey

But yeah, if ya just gotta show, I'm totally down. Again, preferring Iron Gods with reign of winter as second place.

Alright from my count we currently have 2 voters with a slight inclination towards Iron Gods. If those interested could say what they would rather play I can change some things to be more official. Also, anyone just reading, no place is set in stone so do not be shy about voicing interest.

Iron Gods is pretty awesome. In consideration of other things that are pretty awesome, how do you feel about Dreamscarred Press?

Umm I'm really not comfortable going outside Paizo published material at this moment, especially if you are referencing the various classes they have written up, which takes much more consideration than a feat or two.

I believe Brave said you just have to be able to listen not talk. So, if your internet connection is the unreliable thing I totally understand but if it's your mic that's the problem you should be fine.

I've never actually tried VOIP/Roll20 before, but this is certainly a better opportunity to dip my toe in the water than most, and I love the concept of Iron Gods - both previous PbP games I was in here imploded.

It always felt very arbitrary to me, or flavor-dependent rather than balance-dependent at least. Monks, for instance, get the lowest starting at 1d6x10 for what seems to be no reason other than 'monks should be poor ascetics', while Druids, who are both far more powerful and fluff-wise far less dependent on money or manufactured gear, get twice that at 2d6x10. Fighters - the most gear-dependent class - get an average of 175GP, Barbarians (almost indistinguishable from Fighters at level 1) get only 105, and Clerics get an average of 140 GP despite having magic.

Speaking of which, I think I'll be submitting a Druid with the Stargazer trait - someone fascinated by the idea of entire alien ecologies on other worlds.